Day 11: Pop Your Own Popcorn

Columbus, GA (WTVM)- Each pop drains a little more out of your pocket. Microwaveable popcorn is convenient, kind of healthy and certainly a crowd pleaser, but over a year's time it can break the bank.

A box with six 3.5 ounce packs usually runs about $4.50 or more, depending on the brand. Sounds cheap right but not considering what we're about to show you. There's a way for you to still have your corn and eat it too. Here's how it works. Kiss your Pop Secret, Jiffy Pop and Orville Redenbacher goodbye! It's time to go back to the old fashion way and pop your own corn.

We did the research, and it's well worth your while, especially if you buy in bulk. The Consumer Watch Team found a 50 pound bag for $23.18. Hard to believe but that's a year's worth of popcorn at less than 3 cents per ounce. That much microwave popcorn would cost about $170.00. The difference is nearly $145.00.

You don't even have to waste money on oil. You can put a few tablespoons into a brown paper bag, put it in the microwave and there you go--a simply, savory and money saving treat!

(AP Photo/Jennifer Kay). Six crosses are placed at a makeshift memorial on the Florida International University campus in Miami on Saturday, March 17, 2018, near the scene of a pedestrian bridge collapse that killed at least six people on March 15.

A matter of seconds between those who would live and those who would die as Florida pedestrian bridge topples down highway bustling with passing vehicles.

Authorities say a missing Pennsylvania teenager and a 45-year-old man who frequently signed her out of school without her parents' permission have been located in Mexico, and the man has been arrested.

Authorities say a missing Pennsylvania teenager and a 45-year-old man who frequently signed her out of school without her parents' permission have been located in Mexico, and the man has been arrested.

(Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman via AP). FBI agents work the scene of an explosion in Austin, Texas, Sunday, March 18, 2018. At least a few people were injured in another explosion in Texas' capital late Sunday, after three package bombs detonat...

Officials reported that an explosion in southwest Austin injured two men in their 20s who were hospitalized with injuries that didn't appear to be life-threatening.

(Joe Ahlquist/The Rochester Post-Bulletin via AP). Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a fatal stabbing Saturday, March 17, 2018, at the Salvation Army Castleview Residence in downtown Rochester, Minn. Police have arrested a man in the multiple...

Police have arrested a man in the fatal stabbing of two men at a Salvation Army apartment building in downtown Rochester, Minnesota.

Conway parents were arrested for unlawful neglect of a child after their baby was allegedly thrown from his car seat, according to a police report from Horry County Police. 20-year-old Juliana Biggerstaff and 22-year-old Jacob Lowman were arrested on Thursday after a complainant called police. Officers responded to a residence on Woodwinds Drive in Conway on March 14. Upon arrival, officers located a baby boy with a “visible injury to the top of his h...

Conway parents were arrested for unlawful neglect of a child after their baby was allegedly thrown from his car seat, according to a police report from Horry County Police. 20-year-old Juliana Biggerstaff and 22-year-old Jacob Lowman were arrested on Thursday after a complainant called police. Officers responded to a residence on Woodwinds Drive in Conway on March 14. Upon arrival, officers located a baby boy with a “visible injury to the top of his h...